Neil Young - Guitarist

Like Charlie Watts, Neil is one of those players whose decades of playing constantly did absolutely nothing to improve his skills.  He is as bad now as when he was when he was screeching out single note guitar solos with Buffalo Springfield.  If every other guitar player in the world died tomorrow he still wouldn't make the top 100 list.

Personally, I think Rolling Stone died by the endless, pompous, derivative, purposely-argumentative, dated lists.

Neil has a unique style which is not for everybody.  It's easy to parody but impossible to really duplicate.   If you didn't like it 50 years ago you're not going to like it any better now.  Personally I liked it then and now.  He's no great technician but he plays with a lot of feeling and intensity. 

Finnaly something I can contribute to you all. I thought I was a 63 year old expert regarding music. Learning so much, but here is a Neil Young story. Seen CSN & Young about 12 years ago in Milwaukee. I paid big bucks to be close to the stage. Picked the 12th row over the 2nd row for the same price. $750.00 for the two tickets. First time seeing one of the most influential groups that shaped and addicted me to the joys of music. Near the end of the show they played some of their individual stuff. Neil did Rocking in the Free World, still can see his rocking back and forth style. He ended up finishing the song with only 3 strings, just fricken nuts. That show broke down to about $3.00 a minute, the best money I ever spent. Thanks to you all for your valuable info regarding gear. Here is a good one, one of my Infinity Kappa 8's was sounding funny the other day, I first checked the speaker cable, and I go what is this wire, turned out to be electrical cord, pulled out the Infinity Manuel and it said that wire is fine for a 12' distance. I had some Audioquest Cable that I hooked up. A whole new experience. Running a reworked Thorens TD 160, Adcom GFA 555 II, and a B&k PT -3 which I just got to replace my Adcom GPT 500 II that just started a balance problem. Ordered a new NAD in box C 165BEE for a little under $800.00 with shipping. 

I haven't seen the list (of course ;-), but I'm going to guess Danny Gatton isn't on it. Danny who?